When I head home from work I typically have to catch two buses. The first bus gets me from the city (or client site that I happen to be working at) to the Woden Bus Interchange. Once at Woden I need to wait for a 67 or a 267 to take me home (depending what time of the day it is).
I left work at about 5:10PM today and got to Woden at about 5:31PM where I am right now. As I was sitting here I noticed some fairly grey clouds heading over this direction. I quickly headed over to the BOM site to look at the weather map for the past few hours and predicted that the heavens where about to open.
Sure enough, a few minutes ago we started getting what I can only describe as a classic tropical downpour – in Canberra. I hope my laptop doesn’t get wet when I hope onto the bus. Actually – come to think of it I hope my laptop doesn’t get wet while I am sitting here in the shelter.
This shelter must have some interesting structural characteristics. It is connected to the roof of the terminal and is almost completely enclosed in glass, but when it started raining a spring erupted from the bricks on the ground.
I think what is happening is that there is a fairly major leak in the interchange roof, that water from that leak runs down into the shelter down through the frames for the glass panels and down into the bricks.
Judging by the age and type of the brick there would be three holes in each of then. When the water hits them it would be flowing down until it eventually hits concrete and can’t go anywhere. The pressure built up from the water running down from the roof would be causing a spring – and alas, this is why the person sitting next to me got their bags wet.